Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Letting go’ sounded like such an easy thing to do...but actually involved a lot of pain.” — Kathy Shuker Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the loss of a loved on but I can feel it when what it is to miss a loved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I always wanted, and my wife Clara, we lost our daughter Maude to sepsis in 2011. We're part of bereavement charities but… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your… — Beth Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Filling ourselves and living with the energy of love feels wonderful. And because this energy resonates at a high vibrational level, it… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the… — Rob Guinan Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“He said my name aloud, but he was asleep. I crawled into his hospital bed with him again as best I could… — Piper Winifred Copy Share Image
“Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all… — Anna White Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“She died calmly; and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those who dearest ties… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“If suddenly you do not exist, if suddenly you no longer live, I shall live on. I do not dare, I do… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Everything assumes a different intensity when you are feeling the pain of loss. Be prepared. A minor annoyance that you might once… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The world feels foreign when you're in a state of bereavement, and you also feel foreign to yourself. — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
“Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“I know good things have happened, don't mistake an expression of pain for a lack of thankfulness.” — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
